Roedermark

Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	Darmstadt
County :	Offenbach
Height :	154 m above sea level NHN
Area :	29.99 km 2
Residents:	28,249 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	942 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	63322
Area code :	06074
License plate :	OF
Community key :	06 4 38 012
City structure:	5 districts
; City administration address :	Dieburger Strasse 13–17 ; 63322 Rödermark
Website :	roedermark.de
Mayor :	Jörg Rotter ( CDU )
Location of the city of Rödermark in the Offenbach district

Rödermark is a town in the Offenbach district , southeast of Frankfurt am Main and northeast of Darmstadt on the 50th parallel .

geography

Geographical location

The city is mostly located in the Messel hill country, a slightly hilly part of the Lower Main Plain. The height differences are small, they range from around 130 meters above sea level in the Rodau floodplains east of Ober-Roden to around 200 meters above sea level on the Bulau. Rödermark is surrounded by green corridors, which are mainly located in the Rodau area. The Rodau crosses the urban area from west to east. The northern settlement areas of Bulau, Messenhausen and Waldacker mainly have residential functions, while the main towns of Ober-Roden and Urberach offer a complete infrastructure. The nearest motorway connections are ten kilometers away, and Frankfurt Airport around 25 kilometers. Rödermark is located in the area of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund and is due to the favorable location of the Ober-Roden train station the end of the S-Bahn - line S1 and station of the RMV line 61 ( Dreieichbahn ).

Rödermark is exactly in the middle between the cities of Frankfurt, Darmstadt and Aschaffenburg. The 50th parallel runs in the north of the urban area through the Waldacker settlement. To the east of Waldacker, near the club area of the local tennis club, the city administration built a special memorial system on the bike path running in the direction of Rodgau , which is located at the 50th parallel at exactly this point, as well as on "settlement traces of the millennia in the landscape ", D. H. draws attention to archaeological finds from the area.

Neighboring communities

Rödermark borders the city of Dietzenbach in the north, the city of Rodgau in the east, the municipalities of Eppertshausen and Messel (both districts of Darmstadt-Dieburg ) in the south, and the city of Dreieich in the west .

City structure

Rödermark consists of the five districts of Messenhausen with 777 inhabitants, Ober-Roden with 12,610 inhabitants, Urberach with 11,408 inhabitants, Waldacker with 2,912 inhabitants and Bulau with 98 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2012).

history

The Rodau runs in Ober-Roden right next to the Trinkborn School

Church building

The municipality of Rödermark was created on January 1, 1977 in the course of the regional reform in Hesse by law through the merger of the municipalities of Ober-Roden and Urberach. Both founding communities belonged to the Dieburg district and came to the Offenbach district with the establishment of the Rödermark community. Local districts were not formed in Rödermark. On August 23, 1980, Rödermark was officially granted city rights. The name goes back to a late medieval forest cooperative (marca raodora) Rödermark .

Population development

(as of December 31st)

1998: 25,787
1999: 25.814
2000: 26.049
2001: 26.126
2002: 26,285
2003: 26,289
2004: 28,189
2005: 28.107
2006: 26.161
June 30, 2007: 27,889
2008: 27,858, thereof 12,676 in Ober-Roden, 11,528 in Urberach, 2,864 in Waldacker and 790 in Messenhausen, thereof 14,190 women (50.97%) and 13,668 men (49.06%); 2,982 foreigners (10.7%)
2011: 26,297
2012: 27,805, thereof 12,610 in Ober-Roden, 11,408 in Urberach, 2,912 in Waldacker and 777 in Messenhausen, thereof 3,037 foreigners (10.92%)
2013: 26,494, of which 12,542 in Ober-Roden, 11,485 in Urberach, 2,944 in Waldacker and 747 in Messenhausen and 99 on the Bulau
2015: 27,242
2016: 27,579

History of Ober-Roden

It is very likely that there used to be a nunnery in the village ( Rotaha Monastery ), which Abbess Aba placed under Lorsch Monastery in 786 . However, there is still no definitive proof of this. The Rotaha settlement was first mentioned in 790 when it was donated to Lorsch Abbey. But also on April 22nd, 791, a Franconian nobleman named Erlulf donated all of his property in Ober-Roden, Nieder-Roden and Bieber to the Lorsch monastery.

In 1939 the community had 3608 inhabitants. In 1957, Messenhausen decided to join Ober-Roden, after it had been part of the mayor's office since 1821 , but kept its own municipal budget.

History of Urberach

The place was first mentioned in 1275 as Orbruch . Kurmainz acquired sovereignty over Urberach in the late Middle Ages , the village belonged to the Mainzischen Amt Dieburg.

The population increased from 1488 in 1861 to 2807 in 1939 and 9558 in 1978.

History of Messenhausen

The village was first mentioned in 1282. In 1821, Messenhausen became part of the Ober-Roden mayor, but it kept its own municipal budget until 1957. In 1957 the village of Ober-Roden joined. Messenhausen had 80 inhabitants in 1829 and 605 in 1978.

Waldacker story

Waldacker was settled in the 1930s and has belonged to Rödermark since the regional reform in 1977.

Religions

Catholic Church of St. Nazarius

Rödermark was influenced by Catholicism. However, immigration in the second half of the 20th century brought many Protestant Christians to the city. Today there are five Christian parishes:

Catholic parish of St. Nazarius Ober-Roden
Evangelical parish of Ober-Roden
Catholic parish of St. Gallus Urberach
Evangelical Petrus Congregation Urberach
Free Evangelical Congregation Rödermark

The oldest church in Rödermark is the Trinity Chapel at the entrance to Messenhausen (built in 1820).

politics

City Council

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council A total of 39 seats SPD : 6 AL / GREEN : 10 FDP : 4 CDU : 15 FW : 4	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	39.5	15th	41.0	16	47.1	22nd	52.9	24
	AL / Greens	Other list / The Greens	24.2	10	33.5	13	28.1	13	16.1	7th
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	15.9	6th	15.6	6th	17.1	8th	25.8	12
	FDP	Free Democratic Party	10.0	4th	5.0	2	7.8	3	5.2	2
	FWR	Free voters Rödermark	10.4	4th	4.9	2	-	-	-	-
	total		100	39	100	39	100	45	100	45
	Voter turnout in%		54.5		54.5		47.7		57.3

mayor

Rödermark was shaped conservatively for many decades; the CDU received the most votes in elections for many years.

In the 2005 mayoral election, however, Roland Kern (AL / Greens), supported by the SPD and AL / Greens, narrowly won the runoff election against the CDU candidate Alexander Sturm. On March 27, 2011, Kern was re-elected from five applicants in the first ballot with 59.1 percent of the vote; on February 19, 2017, he again prevailed in the runoff election against his challenger Carsten Helfmann (CDU) with 51.3 percent of the votes .

The mayoral election on March 24, 2019 was Jörg Rotter (CDU), at that time first city councilor of the city of Rödermark, with 55.6 percent of the votes among three applicants, after Kern had already announced in 2017 that he would be leaving office for reasons of age To be laid down in mid-2019. Rotter took office as mayor on July 1, 2019.

The mayors since 1977:

Karl Martin Rebel , CDU (1977–1982)
Walter Faust , CDU (1982–1993)
Alfons Maurer , CDU (1993-2005)
Roland Kern , AL / Greens (2005–2019)
Jörg Rotter, CDU (2019-today)

badges and flags

coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold, a red rafter, beneath it a seven-leaved, radiant linden branch and a red, six-spoke Mainz wheel."

The coat of arms of the municipality (since 1980 city) Rödermark in the Offenbach district was approved by the Hessian Interior Minister on February 1, 1978 . It was designed by the Bad Nauheim heraldist Heinz Ritt .

The red rafter was taken from the coat of arms of the municipality of Ober-Roden and symbolizes its historical affiliation to the county of Hanau . The Mainz wheel was taken from the coat of arms of the municipality of Urberach and in turn symbolizes its affiliation to the Electorate of Mainz .

The linden branch in between symbolizes the Rödermark . The seven sheets stand for the seven places of the mark that held court under the linden tree in Ober-Roden.

flag

The flag was approved for the municipality together with the coat of arms on February 1, 1978 by the Hessian Minister of the Interior and is described as follows:

"The municipal coat of arms is placed between two red stripes on a white central strip."

Town twinning

In 1975 Urberach entered into a partnership with the municipality of Tramin in South Tyrol / Italy . A year later the communities of Saalfelden in Austria and Ober-Roden became siblings. Rödermark then decided in 1992 to enter into a partnership with the municipality of Bodajk in Hungary .

Culture and sights

theatre

Entrance to the Rödermark cultural hall

The alternative center Rödermark e. V. was founded in 1979. The initial aim was to found an “alternative” youth center as a reaction to the city's inadequate youth policy at the time. The AZ's program grew to up to 35 events a year, stylistically diverse with avant-garde and world music alongside folk, jazz and rock. Cabaret and cabaret were represented by " Badesalz " and the " Provisional Frankfurter Fronttheater ". Further highlights of the first ten years were: " The 3 Tornados ", Gerd Dudenhöffer , Gerhard Polt , Stephan Wald , " The Little Animal Show ", Hanns Dieter Hüsch , Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff , Bruno Jonas and Gardi Hutter . There were also artists from all over the world. The AZ was more and more frequent guests in schools, club houses, in the multi-purpose hall (later the culture hall) or in the Protestant parish houses. The AZ is a founding member of the state working group of cultural initiatives and socio-cultural centers in Hessen e. V.

Theater performances, concerts and other events take place in the culture hall in the Ober-Roden district, which opened in 1995 and has 720 seats.

The actors Friederike and Oliver Nedelmann have been running a living room theater in the former management villa of Telefonbau und Normalzeit (T&N) in the Urberach district since 2004 .

In addition to many other cultural associations, the music association Viktoria 08 Ober-Roden is worth mentioning as a cultural institution .

Museums

The pottery museum in the Urberach district presents the local history and tradition of the pottery trade. When it was opened in 1984, it was the only pottery museum in Hesse. The Rödermark Heimat- und Geschichtsverein runs the museum on a voluntary basis. It is open once a month. Pottery courses are held regularly in the museum's pottery workshop. Civil weddings take place in one of the exhibition rooms.

The Rhine-Main Regional Park has a station on the Bulau hill near Urberach. There a group of sculptures depicts a Celtic funeral procession.

Churches

The neo-Gothic Catholic parish church of St. Nazarius with its bell tower of 52.7 meters is particularly striking and visible from afar . Built between 1894 and 1896 under Pastor Dockendorff, it has shaped the silhouette of Ober-Roden ever since. It is popularly known as Rodgau Cathedral because of its impressive size for a town like Ober-Roden .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Transport links
Federal highways
Train
Regional train	RB 61
Bus routes	OF-45 OF-46 OF-95 674 679 X74 F / U
Night bus routes	679 n65 n66

Rödermark is connected to the national road network through Bundesstraße 45 .

Rödermark has two train stations. The Rödermark-Ober-Roden station is a local railway junction. It connects the S-Bahn line S1 ( Rodgaubahn ) with the Dreieichbahn . Several regional bus lines also go to Ober-Roden train station. It is also connected to the Frankfurt night bus network. The Rödermark-Urberach station is served by the Dreieichbahn and two bus lines.

The city bus routes OF-45 and OF-46 are mainly used as school buses, but can also be used by the public.

Frankfurt am Main airport and the Egelsbach airfield are available for air travelers .

Public facilities

The InnovationsCentrum Rödermark AG advises company founders and operates business development for the city of Rödermark.

In the district of Ober-Roden there is a base fire brigade (base district Offenbach Mitte), which is also responsible for the neighboring cities.

education

Rödermark has two primary schools in Ober-Roden and Urberach, a special needs school and an integrated comprehensive school with upper level, the Oswald-von-Nell-Breuning School . The comprehensive school is a European school .

The Rhein-Main University of Cooperative Education offers courses in business and business informatics.

The Rödermark Music School has more than 600 students of all ages. The music school founded in 1992 is supported by a registered association.

The Volkshochschule Rödermark is a branch of the Volkshochschule of the Offenbach district (based in Dreieich ). Your office and most of the classrooms are in Ober-Roden .

Companies

The economy of the city of Rödermark is characterized by medium-sized companies. In addition to retail and trade, there are also some larger companies based.

The Japanese company Sigma , a manufacturer of digital cameras, lenses and flash units, has its German subsidiary in Ober-Roden.

The Ceotronics AG develops, produces and distributes radio systems for the transmission of voice and video in harsh environments. The corporate group has its headquarters in Rödermark.

Zeppelin Systems GmbH specializes in the development and manufacture of components and systems for the food sector with a focus on the baking industry. Zeppelin Systems GmbH is part of the Zeppelin Group based in Garching near Munich. The company has been based in Rödermark since 1959 and ran under Reimelt GmbH until 2009, when the Zeppelin Group took over the owner-managed company.

The Videor E. Hartig GmbH sells professional video technology. The company was founded in 1975. 140 employees generated sales of 63 million euros in the 2008/2009 financial year. The Videor Art Foundation collects experimental media art and has been exhibiting it since 2008.

MKU Chemie Mineraloel GmbH has been producing oils for metalworking since 1956. The company has branches in France, the Czech Republic and China.

The Köhl GmbH provides seating for the office here. The company was founded in 1976. The factory, built in 1979, was expanded and rebuilt in 1985, 1991 and 2007. As a young company, in 1980 Köhl received a major order for 17,865 office swivel chairs for the regional finance office in North Rhine-Westphalia.

natural reserve

NSG Erlenwiesen near Ober-Roden

The Erlenwiesen nature reserve near Ober-Roden (NSG identification 1438027) is located south of Ober-Roden , a district of Rödermark. It covers around 14.36 hectares of forest and meadow, which is located in the urban area of Rödermark.

The purpose of the protection is to preserve and develop typical deciduous forest, reed and large sedge communities as well as wet meadows and creek banks in the natural area Messeler Hügelland . Protection applies in particular to the oak-dominated grove-beech forest, the black alder-ash floodplain forest, the riparian woodland, the individual trees and groups of trees that characterize the landscape, the large reed beds, the large sedge marshes , the brown sedge marshes and the marsh grass meadows and the associated flood grass communities.

Others

On June 28, 1980, the 2nd stage of the Tour de France 1980 (cycling race) ran through Rödermark. That stage started in Frankfurt am Main and ran over 276 km to Metz .

In 1999, two independent murders occurred in Rödermark-Ober-Roden, just five weeks apart, in which three people were killed. The first murder in particular had been carried out underhandedly and brutally. The perpetrator broke into the house of a married couple and killed the husband in the basement. After that, he apparently deliberately waited many hours in the house until the wife (a gynecologist ) came home to kill her too. The perpetrator took the computer and glasses but left valuables lying around. The case was the subject of a film in the TV show Aktenzeichen XY unsolved . The case has not yet been resolved. In the second case, a 23-year-old man was stabbed to death by a Kosovar Albanian because the perpetrator stumbled over the victim's legs in a restaurant while being heavily drunk, which the perpetrator regarded as an insult.

The former Rödermark ice rink was the first ice rink in the Rhine-Main area. In 1992 it was converted into the large-capacity disco Paramount Park , which, with a total size of 3200 square meters, was one of the largest and best-known discos in Germany. On Boxing Day 2006 at around 10 p.m. a major fire broke out in the back of the hall. Despite immediate action by the fire brigade, the rear part of the hall could no longer be saved. This part of the hall was completely demolished in the weeks after the fire.

The art figure wumboR® was created for the 30th anniversary of the city of Rödermark in 2007 by the artists Sylvia Baumer and Manfred Blößer. The name symbolizes the five districts (Waldacker, Urberach, Messenhausen, Bulau, Ober-Roden) with a capital "R" for Rödermark at the end. wumboR® is the namesake of an annual city run in spring that leads through all five parts of the city. He also cycles around the city on a cycle path.

There is a traditional rivalry between the districts of Ober-Roden and Urberach , which is taken up again and again in a carnival style. B. in hand-made speeches and carnival parades . The rivalry is in principle comparable to the so-called AKK conflict between Mainz and Wiesbaden .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Aloys Georg Rink (called: Ludwig) (1881–1971), local politician (SPD) and member of the state parliament
Nikolaus Schwarzkopf (1884–1962), writer and Georg Büchner Prize winner
Johann Bernard Heitkämper (1895–1967), pastor in Ober-Roden from 1936 to 1966.

sons and daughters of the town

Roland Kern (* 1947), politician ( Die Grünen ) and former Vice President of the Hessian State Parliament
Werner Gross (* 1949), psychologist, management consultant and author
Egon Schallmayer (* 1951), Roman provincial archaeologist
Wolfgang Steiger (* 1964), politician (CDU) and member of the Bundestag from 1999–2002
Andreas Schmidt (* 1976), music producer

Personalities who lived or worked in Rödermark

Rudolf Rolfs (1920–2004), German satirist, writer and theater director, lived in Waldacker in the 1980s and 1990s

Jean Darling (1922–2015), actress, spent the last years of her life in a nursing home in Ober-Roden

Peter Kunter (* 1941), former football goalkeeper for Eintracht Frankfurt ; lives in Rödermark and had a dental practice in Urberach from around 1974 to 2005

Bernd Spier (1944–2017), pop singer, lived in Waldacker until 2005

Werner Lorant (* 1948), former Eintracht Frankfurt soccer player and soccer coach, lived in Ober-Roden from 1979 to 1982

Henni Nachtsheim (* 1957), ex-member of the Rodgau Monotones and now a member of the comedy duo Badesalz

Kristina Bach (* 1962), pop singer, lived in Urberach in the 1990s

Patricia Lips (* 1963), politician (CDU), member of the Bundestag since 2002

Jörg Schindler (* 1968), German journalist, has been an editor for Der Spiegel since 2012 , grew up in Urberach

Laura Di Salvo (* 1973), journalist and radio television presenter

Marc Behrenbeck (* 1982), journalist and Sky television presenter, grew up in Ober-Roden

Jannik Sommer (* 1991), soccer player at SV Waldhof Mannheim , played for TS Ober-Roden

Laura Winter (* 1993), radio presenter, grew up in Ober-Roden

Serkan Firat (* 1994), soccer player at FC Bayern Alzenau , played for TG Ober-Roden

Web links

Commons : Rödermark - Collection of images

Website of the city of Rödermark
Rödermark, Offenbach district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of April 7, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Literature about Rödermark in the Hessian Bibliography
Literature by and about Rödermark in the catalog of the German National Library
Link catalog on Rödermark at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Website of the AZ Rödermark

Individual evidence

↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).

↑ An imaginary journey along the 50th parallel - the new regional park section was inaugurated near Waldacker ( memento of the original from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.

↑ City of Rödermark Statistics ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Law on the reorganization of the Offenbach district (GVBl. II 330-33) of June 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 316–318 , § 7 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 355 .
↑ Law on the reorganization of the Offenbach district (GVBl. II 330-33) of June 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 316–318 , § 7 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .

^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011

^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006

^ City of Rödermark: Results of the mayoral election 2011. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 5, 2014 ; Retrieved March 27, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.

^ Runoff election BGM Rödermark 2017. In: Stadt Rödermark. Retrieved July 1, 2019 .

↑ Mayoral election Rödermark 2019. Accessed on March 24, 2019 .

↑ Jörg Rotter (CDU) replaces Roland Kern (AL / The Greens) as mayor. In: Offenbach-Post. March 25, 2019, accessed July 1, 2019 .

↑ Approval of a coat of arms and a flag of the Rödermark community, Offenbach district from February 1, 1978 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1978 No. 8 , p. 375 , point 267 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.3 MB ]).

↑ Kulturhalle Rödermark - a building of the century . In: Offenbach-Post . January 20, 1995.

↑ Theater & nedelmann. Retrieved March 2, 2011 .

^ City of Rödermark: Pottery Museum. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 14, 2011 ; Retrieved March 2, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.

^ Rödermark Music School. Retrieved March 7, 2011 .

↑ vhs Rödermark. Retrieved October 25, 2012 .

↑ VIDEOR - Company - We introduce ourselves. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 7, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.

↑ MKU Chemie Mineraloel GmbH Rödermark: Company information. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 4, 2011 ; Retrieved March 7, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.

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↑ nature reserves. In: Kreis-offenbach.de. Retrieved September 20, 2018 .

↑ cf. Municipal and field boundaries in BürgerGIS of the Offenbach

↑ Unresolved cases in the region. In: Offenbach Post Online. dated May 12, 2010.

↑ File number XY shipment content from July 16, 1999 ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.

↑ There was more than one victim. In: Offenbach Post Online. dated April 25, 2009.

↑ Confetti instead of sleet. In: Offenbach Post Online. dated February 16, 2010.

^ The social politician Georg Alois Rink . In: Offenbach-Post . August 19, 1995.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-HE-1] Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).